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Harris-Perry launched a altercation based on a new book blue-blooded "Why Americans Abhorrence Welfare" by Princeton assistant Martin Gilens.
According to Harris-Perry, the book examines accessible assessment surveys that begin that Americans accept "spending for the amusing good," but argue that spending back it's labeled as welfare.
Harris-Perry wondered how this could be the case. "The answer, according to Gilens...[is] that Americans abhorrence abundance because media, at the bidding of bourgeois politicians, accept relentlessly affiliated abundance with atramentous people, and accept formed home the abstraction that abundance recipients are undeserving."
Harris-Perry assorted this approach with Mitt Romney's GOP assemblage accent on Thursday, in which the Republican presidential applicant said that Americans deserve better.
"It does feel to me [that] allotment of the American adventure is chic mobility. If there is no chic mobility, we are not America, right?..And abstracts now shows that in our accepted moment, chic advancement is actual low," Harris-Perry said. "I aloof feel like, from the bottom, you accept to be able to say, 'I deserve the adeptness for chic mobility.'"
Financial able Monica Mehta, who was a bedfellow on Harris-Perry's show, interjected that chic advancement is "enabled by demography risk."
Harris-Perry anon disconnected her and demanded, "What is riskier than active poor in America? Seriously?" Afterwards slamming her duke on the table, she continued:
What in the apple is riskier than actuality a poor actuality in America? I alive in a adjacency area bodies are attempt on my artery corner. I alive in a adjacency area bodies accept to amount out how to get their kid into academy because maybe it will be a acceptable academy and maybe it won't. I'm ailing of the abstraction that actuality affluent is risky. No, there's a huge assurance net, that whenever you fail, we'll bolt you, and bolt you, and bolt you. Actuality poor is what is risky. We accept to actualize a assurance net for poor bodies and back we won't because they appear to attending altered from us, it is the common ugliness. We cannot do that.
During aftermost week's program, Melissa Harris-Perry gave admirers an central attending into her New Orleans neighborhood. Aftermost month, Harris-Perry and her bedmate bankrupt on the acquirement of a home that had been damaged and alone afterwards Hurricane Katrina.
Harris-Perry declared the acreage as a armpit of abomination in her neighborhood, so her ambition was to clean the home and accord to the assurance and aegis of the community. Harris-Perry alleged the home "just a concrete thing" but additionally a "symbol of hope."
Just a few canicule afterwards the articulation aired on her MSNBC show, Harris-Perry's new home was destroyed by Hurricane Isaac. "House was abandoned except for my dreams," she tweeted.
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